| Black Agenda Report

Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Durban and 9/11: The Implications for a New Politics of Resistance
15 Sep 2021
Another twenty-year anniversary is the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) that took place in Durban, South Africa between August 31, and September 8. The George W.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Da’Shaun Harrison’s Book, “Belly of the Beast”
18 Aug 2021
The politics of fat shaming is tied to anti-Black racism.
Patrick D. Anderson
The Conspicuous Absence of Derrick Bell—Rethinking the CRT Debate, Part 1
23 Jul 2021
Bell levels a class critique against the Black bourgeoisie, whom he sees as having led Black political protest down the wrong path time and time again.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Matthieu Chapman’s Book, “Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama”
22 Jul 2021
This book analyzes Early Modern English Drama as a form of cultural production in which the paradigm of Early Modern England was shifting to account for encounters with black Africans.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Police, Prisons and Prosecutors just Create More Victims
23 Feb 2021
“We believe that all forms of law enforcement” in the US “are rooted in systems of violence,” said Samah Sisay, an organizer with the abolitionist group “Survived and Punished” and
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Black Racism Is Environmental Hazard
02 Feb 2021
Environmental justice should be put at the cutting edge of the social justice movement, said Dr Ugo Edu, an African American Studies professor at UCLA, and a medical anthropologist
Selamawit D. Terrefe
On Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III
16 Dec 2020
Afro-pessimism theorizes slavery as a social relation which distinguishes Blackness as a paradigmatic position antithetical to humans.
Too Black
The Myth of the Perfect Victim
16 Dec 2020
The denial of Black humanity is essential to the order of racial capitalism, and dictates that Blacks deserve whatever treatment they get.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Racism and Violence Against Blacks Endemic to US
01 Dec 2020
Critical Race Theory holds that racism is endemic to US society, while Afropessimism and Social Death “suggests that, regardless of what Black bodies do, [they] will experience gratuitous violence,
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Black Racism is Everywhere in the Americas
03 Nov 2020
Anti-Black racism is not limited to the US, said Jomaira Salas, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Rutgers University and author of an article on Black Latina girls.